Wang Speaks on Investments in Entertainment-Education Panel

Published
July 15, 2016

On July 12, 2016, Associate Professor Helen Wang was invited to
speak at the Convening of “Investments in
Entertainment-Education as a way to catalyze and sustain social and
behavior change” in New York, co-hosted by the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Population Foundation of India, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, UNFPA, and UNICEF.
Dr. Wang joined the opening panel on "communication for social and
behavior change: where are we today?" along with UNICEF's Chief of
Communication for Development Dr. Rafael Obregon. The
entertainment-education program East Los High that Dr. Wang
co-evaulated with Dr. Arvind Singhal of University of Texas, El
Paso was one of the three projects featured at this meeting. She
also helped facilitate small group discussions on "evidence,
replication, and scaling-up" with participants from various
government agencies, NGOs, and private companies interested in
investing entertainment media for health promotion and social
change.

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